I have been absent from my blog for awhile. Life has been busy,things have been brewing, and in the weeks building up to Xmas there haven’t been many surprises in TV Land in regards to ratings. We have entered the “rerun” time of year, with acception to any XMas programming put on.
My last blog spoke about how ‘Raising the Bar’ on TNT was cancelled, but that there were three more episodes that were going to air. Imagine my surprise when , on Christmas Day, I looked and my DVR had three new episodes (because it’s programmed to tape only new episodes) back to back. Apparently TNT gave fans a little Christmas present. I say that because it was a surprise as I saw no promos for those episodes. It’s only a gift, however, if you had a season pass and didn’t delete it.
Speaking of delete, even though a show has been cancelled, if 13 episodes had not been aired yet, I would leave it on your season pass. You never know when the networks will start burning off remaing episodes like they did over this past summer. ‘Three Rivers’ will most likely just magically pop up, as there are 5 episodes that haven’t aired and it appears that it is no longer on CBS’s schedule, for now.
TNT also gave us a very short (only 3 episodes?) of ‘The Closer’ leading up to Xmas. Thank you, TNT, but next time can you do more than three episodes please? We also saw ‘Men of a Certain Age’ air. Great show. A little slow, but still excellent, in my opinion. It wsa #29 on the Cable TV Programming list with 3.69M viewers on 12/21 and 3.123M on 12/28. As TVByThenumbers.com puts it, the dip could be one of two factors or the combination of both the fact that it’s the holiday season and it didn’t have the Closer as a lead in. All in all though, it seems like respectable numbers. It’s debut was 5.4M and that was opposite Monday Night Football.
We also had Eastwick on during the Xmas week. I kind of find that odd. Most shows are running repeats. That , to me, is a strong indication that the network has given up on the show and is burning off the episodes to get to the end of it’s run sooner. It basically bombed in it’s numbers. I still haven’t watched them and they are sitting on my DVR now.
So, let’s take a look at who is on the most likely to be cancelled list;
Ugly Better
Better Off Ted
Eastwick
The Forgotten
Scrubs (this show seems to have a couple of lives, but I think it’s out of lifelines)
Cold Case
Trauma
Mercy
Till Death
Dollhouse
Brothers
Riding the ratings Bubble; in otherwords, it may be cancelled;
Fringe (it will be airing after House on January 11th – lets hope it’s ratings improve and House lifts it)
The Middle
Castle
Flash Forward (this has been trending down and it’s not looking good. Shame, it was a hit out of the gate, but what is happening to it now? eek)
New Adventures of Old Christine
Accidentally on Purpose
The Good Wife (Yes folks, it’s on the bubble. It is performing slightly less than CBS’s average, which puts it in danger. As TVbythenumbers has indicated, at any other station like NBC or ABC, this show would be a hit and NOT in danger. I’m surprised by this one. It’s such a great show it would be a shame to lose it simply because of the network it’s on rather than the number of viewers it actually gets)
Gary Unmarried
Numbers
Law & Order
Parks & Recreations
Community
Heroes
If I didn’t mention it in this blog, then it’s on the most likely to be renewed list. I’ll also update the list on the sidebar for all my readers (how many of you are out there, I have no idea..LOL. )
And what do we have to look forward to in the New Year? Well, we have the premiere of ‘Parenthood’ that will follow episoded of ‘Chuck’ on NBC mid-season. We have the last season of ‘Lost’ to look forward to and the premieres of ‘Human Target’ and other new shows coming. We will have to wait and see what happens to NBC and all it’s programming once the deal with Comcast is done. According to an article I read the other day ( I can’t remember where) the days of “free” network TV may go the way of paid channels, as the Cable business model is fairing far better than the networks. Could 2010 be the year that TV changes forever?
At the close I want to say Happy New Year! I’ve spent the week between Xmas and New Years doing several things, including watching the ‘True Blood’ first season marathon.
